Is there anything you can share with us at this point about the Doctor Horrible series?

NF: It’s gonna rock. It’s gonna rock. For something that looked kinda felt… Joss called me up and said “Hey, me and my brothers and one of my brothers’ fiancé, we wrote this thing, a musical, we’re going to put it on do you want to do it?” Sure! Six days of filming, this incredible music that we were singing, these incredible lyrics, these wonderful songs, it’s just… it sounds kinda hokey but in six days all these people pulling together… I saw a rough cut of this thing and it’s frickin’ great. It’s changed my opinion as to how things are going to work in the future as far as taking the producers out of the equation and the internet is now your distribution. I think everything’s going to change and I think this is certainly my first experience in the direction things are going.

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Sujet: Re: News de Joss Whedon !!! Mer 14 Mai 2008, 10:54

Review du Pilot de Dollhouse par zap2it:

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Dollhouse Written by Joss Whedon

What It's About: Echo (Dushku) is a Doll. She's a young woman imprinted by a group of shady scientists as a blank-slate-for-hire. Depending on how she's programmed, she can be a glorified prostitute, the ideal wedding date to make your ex-girlfriend jealous, a butt-kicking bodyguard or a sympathetic confidante. She can be anything you want. And she's not the only Doll in the Dollhouse, a vast holding facility overseen by Adelle DeWitt (Olivia Williams). When Echo hasn't been imprinted by programmer Topher (Fran Kranz), she's supposed to be a blank slate, but Topher and Dr. Claire Saunders (Amy Acker) are beginning to notice signs of learned behavior from Echo, signs of memory. If Echo's becoming self-aware, that might be the break to help Paul (Tahmoh Penikett), a federal agent trying to get to the bottom of the Dollhouse urban legend.

How It Reads: A good pilot should do one of two things: It should either lay out the blueprint for the rest of the series or it should intrigue you so much that you can't wait for the second episode. Fringe falls into the first category. It leaves almost nothing to the imagination in terms of what's coming next. Dollhouse falls into the second category. Whedon's script builds into a mystery that's as much philosophical as science fiction. The introduction to the show's universe is immediately disorienting, but also enthralling, as Whedon mixes elements of the conspiracy thriller with what threatens to become a profound meditation on identity. Dollhouse comes across as darker in tone and slower in pace than anything Whedon has previously attempted and while there's humor sprinkled throughout, the sensation at the end is one of overarching menace and also sadness. The pilot script concentrates on only three or four main characters, though several others are introduced in passing, and it offers no stand-alone elements. After reading the pilot, I'm ready to go on the journey with Whedon even though I can't figure out what the week-to-week plot of the show is going to be.

How It Might Play: Since Desperate Housewives and Lost made the major networks want to dive back into the serialized drama business, viewers have made it clear that they're cautious about starting a show that might get cancelled mid-story. Dollhouse feels like the sort of show that might have been better suited for FX or HBO or Showtime, where Whedon's devoted audience could make a show a hit. But Dushku had a talent deal at 20th Century Fox TV and with FOX and this is totally her vehicle, the sort of role that most young actresses would kill for. Since Echo is constantly being other people, Dushku is in position to go from action star to sex kitten to child-like innocent in the course of a dozen pages. It's Dushku's show, but the pilot suggests potentially meaty roles for Williams, Kranz, Acker, Penikett and Harry Lennix, as Echo's trainer. While recognizably Whedonesque, Dollhouse finds Joss going in different direction, one that may be less quippy and less plot-driven than some might expect.

The fans will still love it, I suspect, but will Dollhouse be able to find an audience beyond the Whedonverse? I'm not sure. So this could be one of those "Enjoy it while you've got it" gems.

I spent a good while chatting with the one and only Joss Whedon(pinch me !), who told me they he just wrapped on the pilot shoot forDollhouse Friday, and that he has a very good feeling about the seriesbecause "Eliza Dushku can play anything, and in this series, she does."Can. Not. Wait. He also very kindly shared this info about the show :

* Joss directs the second episode as well as the finished-on-Friday pilot, just to get things rolling.

* Sarah Fain and Elizabeth Craft are the show runners.

* Steve DeKnight and Tim Minear are both consulting producers on the series.

* Joss would love to get Jane Espensonto join the gang too, if he could, but she’s on Battlestar at themoment and the show’s budget might not permit it. (Is it just me or doyou want to send Fox a check right about now ?)

* As reported earlier this week, Dollhouse will go at midseason, and, according to Joss, it’s likely premiering in January.

* There is no Dollhouse presentation planned at the Fox event, but Eliza Dushku might appear on behalf of the show.

* Joss : "I’m still having so much fun. I keep waiting for it to not be fun anymore."

* Joss needs your/our help promoting Dr. Horrible whenit comes out, because the marketing group for that little onlinemusical is...him. I’ll make the wheat paste for the posters, you printup the flyers, ’kay ?

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Sujet: Re: News de Joss Whedon !!! Jeu 15 Mai 2008, 18:11

encore un double post mais kel sacrée double post !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

voici la premiere photoshoot de la serie Dollhouse:

plus d'infos sur Dollhouse :

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Pink Raygun was lucky enough to have the opportunity to read the pilot script for Dollhouse, the latest series from Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy, Angel & Firefly . We thought we’d share our good fortune by telling you what we learn about the Dollhouse itself in the pilot.Want to know more about the script? Post your question in the comments, and we might answer it in a later article!

What exactly is the Dollhouse?1. People pay — a lot — to use the “dolls” (called Actives) employed by the Dollhouse.2. The Dollhouse is very selective about its clientele and performs thorough background checks.3. When on missions, Actives receive a “personality imprint” that provides them with regular memories as well as muscle memory.4. These imprints mean that the Active isn’t pretending to be someone else — they are someone else. If imprinted to be a killer, they’ll kill; if imprinted to fall in love, they’ll fall deeply, truly in love.5. On missions, Actives aremonitored internally (and remotely) by Handlers. This ensures theirsafety while allowing for privacy between the Active and the client.Handlers only listen in on a mission when it involves criminal activity.6. After the Activecompletes the mission, he or she feels an immediate need to return tothe facility, where the Active will be wiped of his or her memories.

7. The Dollhouse serves as a kind ofschool/dormitory when Actives are not out on missions. They live, eat,sleep, shower, learn and train together there.8. Most of the Dolls are young, and all beautiful.

9. Supposedly, the Dolls volunteered for the workin the Dollhouse — they give up five years of their lives, and at theend they receive a ridiculously large sum of money and no memory ofanything they did for the Dollhouse.10. Missions for the Actives are only supposed tolast 10 hours, or else the imprint could be strained. However, latelycertain missions have taken quite a bit longer, some lasting for days…

"It's about a low-rent supervillain [Harris as Dr. Horrible]who's trying to get into the Evil League of Evil and defeat hisnemesis, Captain Hammer [Fillion] and work up the nerve to talk to thepretty girl at the laundromat [Day]," Whedon said in an interview whilepromoting his upcoming Fox series Dollhouse last week in NewYork. "It's an idea I had a while ago, that I thought would be justright for a weird little Internet venture. I wrote it with my brothers[Zack and Jed Whedon] and my brother [Jed's] fiancée [MaurissaTancharoen] and somehow got the best actors I know to just jump in,which was very scary for all of us."

Whedon created Dr. Horrible during the recent writers'strike. "We got this amazing crew," he added. "Everybody just sort ofsaid, 'We'll just jump on,' and in six days we shot this 36-minute,three-part oddity, which I think is the most fun I've had in aboutseven years."

The next step, Whedon said, will be to find a venue to air Dr. Horribleso that it can earn its money back and he can pay the crew. "We'reliterally just finishing it," he said. "And then we're going to show itto my people at CAA and a bunch of other people and discuss 'How do wego about this? Where is the venue for this?'" Whedon anticipates that Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog will appear first on the Internet, followed by releases on iTunes and DVD.